This week’s artist explore the interaction and impact of human life within a physical space.

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1. Sara Dykstra’s still lives of layered transparent installations at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
2. Meredith Pardue is “most interested in extracting singular experiences—snapshots—from life’s endless cycles of growth and decay, and in transforming the public, universal worlds of nature and human dynamics into sites of private knowledge” at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
3. Allison Stewart paints to interpret the chaos of nature at Mark Gallery
4. Altering the real physical space with real floating colorful clouds of smoke, Irby Pace allows nature to dictate the shape and duration. The work has an immediate feeling of beauty, but an underlying feeling of defiance in both life and nature at Galleri Urbane
5. Yangyang Pan’s reinterpretation of action painting, fueled by youthful optimism, cross-cultural history and outsized talent at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art
6. Hayley Barker’s Apparition Hill is a response to her visit to the village of Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina at Hartman Fine Art